Homemade Philadelphia cheese: recipe

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Soft, delicate, with a delicious creamy taste, Philadelphia cheese is the perfect filling for sandwiches. This product can be eaten with both bread and crackers. But "Philadelphia" is also an indispensable ingredient in some dishes, both appetizers and desserts. For example, without it it is impossible to cook Cinnabona buns or the famous New York cheesecake. And Philadelphia rolls got their name because of this cheese. Moreover, this creamy mass can replace more expensive and hard-to-find delicacies, such as Mascarpone. And if you are going to make a Tiramisu dessert, you can safely make cream from Philadelphia. We repeat: the taste of this cream cheese is neutral, and therefore it can be included both in dessert dishes and in savory ones. But buying Philadelphia in Russia has become problematic. Well, you can make it yourself. It will be just as tasty, but much cheaper. In this article we will tell you how to make Philadelphia cheese at home. The photos attached to the descriptions of the recipes will help to facilitate the culinary process.

Some Philadelphia Cooking Secrets

From equipment to uswill need:

• pot or deep bowl,
• sieve,
• gauze cut,
• a piece of dense fabric.

Philadelphia's cooking principle is not much different from cooking any other cheese. Dairy products are fermented with citric acid, the mass is leaned back on a sieve so that unnecessary whey is glassed. This begs the conclusion: the fatter the products are, the more finished Philadelphia cheese you will get. At home, the procedure looks like this. A colander or sieve lined with gauze is placed over the pan. The mass gradually releases the serum and compacts. The whole process can take twelve hours. But it's not hard at all. The cook must work for fifteen minutes, no more. Lemon juice and lactic acid bacteria will do everything themselves, and in the morning you can enjoy delicious cream cheese. And now we will present you some recipes for homemade Philadelphia.

On sour cream and yogurt

So, set a sieve over a deep bowl. We cover it with three layers of gauze. And on top we put another piece of dense fabric. It is needed in order to give Philadelphia cheese a smooth and uniform texture. The fabric should be of such a size that the hanging ends can subsequently cover the contents of the sieve. Pour half a liter of unflavored drinking yogurt into this design. Activia Classic is best suited. We also add 200 grams of sour cream there. Immediately, we note: the original "Philadelphia" does not have a sour taste. If you want cheeseas close as possible to a foreign product, take not store-bought, but farm sour cream. Its fat content should be at least 20 percent. Mix the ingredients with an immersion mixer so that the lumps are broken, and the mass itself becomes smooth. Pour a pinch of s alt and pour half a teaspoon of lemon juice. The chemical process will start with cheaper acid, but it is better to use natural citrus. Stir the mass.

On yogurt and sour cream (second recipe)

The cooking process is practically no different from the previous one. Even the ingredients are the same. The difference is only in proportions, and also in the absence of lemon juice. Pour on the fabric not half a liter, but 400 ml of yogurt. But we add more sour cream - 300 grams. Sprinkle the same amount of s alt as in the previous recipe. But citron or citric acid can not be added - the less acidity, the better. Next, Philadelphia cheese is prepared at home like this. The ends of the fabric are picked up and covered with yogurt-sour cream mass. They put a plate on top, and some oppression on it. It can be an ordinary jar filled with water. We put the whole structure in the refrigerator. The temperature of +5 degrees, set there, is ideal for cheese maturation. Milk fats are stratified gradually, whey flows down, and oppression forms a dense texture of "Philadelphia". In twelve hours your cheese is ready.

Cooking Philadelphia cheese at home: a recipe for cream and cottage cheese

Sour cream is also on the ingredient list. And instead of drinkingyogurt, we add cottage cheese with cream. Since the mass comes out thicker, it is not necessary to use a dense fabric as a filter - gauze is enough. So let's get started.

1. First, let's whip a glass of 30% cream.
2. When they thicken, add the same amount of sour cream. It should also be oily and, if possible, not very acidic.
3. S alt the mass. If you plan to use Philadelphia in the future to prepare dessert dishes, put the crystals on the tip of the knife. For crackers, rolls, salmon baskets, increase the amount of s alt to half a teaspoon.
4. Even in this case, you can chop some fresh herbs (dill, chives) or garlic, and add to the mass.
5. In the end, mix in a pound of fat farm cottage cheese.
6. Leave the mass covered with gauze for a day at room temperature.

On milk and kefir

This recipe for homemade Philadelphia cheese is good because it does not require settling. Immediately after preparation, the dish can be served at the table. Warning: This recipe uses raw eggs! We start cooking by putting a pot with a liter of milk on the fire. As it heats up, add a teaspoon of sugar and s alt to it. When the milk reaches the boiling point, pour half a liter of fatty kefir into it. We stir. We will see how milk fermented with kefir turns into cottage cheese. We need to achieve a smooth structure so that there are no lumps. We throw back homemade cottage cheese on a foldedseveral layers of gauze. Having connected the ends of the fabric, we hang the bag over the sink. After about a quarter of an hour, all the whey should drain. In a bowl, beat the egg with citric acid with a fork. It needs quite a bit - on the tip of a knife. Pour the egg into the curd and stir.

Recipes with Philadelphia cheese (with photo). Light snacks

This cream cheese is so tasty that even the most ordinary sandwich with it will become a real gastronomic masterpiece. And try generously spreading "Philadelphia" on s alted crackers and sprinkle it with herbs. Yes, your guests will surely sweep every last piece off the plate. Yes, and ask for supplements. This cheese is ideal for cold appetizers. It can be used in place of butter in complex sandwiches and buffet canapes. Try to cook such an appetizer in a canapé called "Nests". The process is as follows:

1. Let's boil quail eggs.
2. Let's clean them and put them in strong tea. After a while, the protein will absorb the natural dye.
3. "Philadelphia" we will collect in a pastry bag. If you don't have one, take a file and cut off one of its edges.
4. Fill the bag with cheese and squeeze lush "nests" onto the tartlets.
5. In them lay two eggs that have become brown. Add a sprig of dill to this.

Festive canapes with such cream cheese, decorated with caviar or red fish look beautiful.

Pancake Cakes

Cheese"Philadelphia" and tartlets (baskets made of unleavened, puff or shortcrust pastry) seem to be made for each other. Creamy mass can be supplemented with various flavors. For example, mix finely chopped basil greens, garlic, ground paprika into the cheese. Even a mixture of peppers will do. For red fish sandwiches and rolls, you can mix Philadelphia with caviar oil. This cheese mass will be appropriate not only on tartlets, slices of bread or crackers. Try baking pancakes and sandwiching a stack of Philadelphia. Such a cake can be made a snack. It is only necessary to mix greens and spices, chopped dried tomatoes into the finished “Philadelphia”, and decorate the top of the product with strips of multi-colored bell peppers with dill. Or use red fish by decorating the cake with caviar. But cheese will serve as an excellent cream for desserts. The famous Red Velvet pancake cake is made from Philadelphia.

New York Cheesecake

This is one of the world's iconic desserts, for which Philadelphia cheese is used exclusively. The pie recipe was invented in 1929 by American chef Arnold Reuben. Or rather, he was the first to think of putting Philadelphia instead of cottage cheese in a cheese pie.

1. First of all, bring two eggs, 30 grams of butter and 150 milliliters of cream cheese to room temperature.
2. Then crush 100 g of any shortbread cookie into crumbs. Add oil and two tablespoons of water. Knead with your hands to get a viscous and wet mass (but not wet).
3. Tram it into a mold lined with baking paper to make a doughy cake. If abuy bigger cookies, you can make not only the bottom of the cheesecake, but also form the sides.
4. Send for ten minutes in preheated to 180 gr. oven.
5. During this time we make the stuffing. Mix eggs with cream, 50 grams of sugar and a pinch of vanilla. Stir everything until smooth until the crystals melt.
6. Add 480 grams of Philadelphia. Beat everything with a whisk so that the mass becomes lush. We are not particularly zealous: the airiness of the filling will lead to cracking of the cheese surface.
7. Fill dough base with mass. We put in a preheated to 160 gr. oven. We do not open the door so that the cheesecake does not crack or sag.
8. In an hour and ten minutes we turn off. Open the oven door a little so that the cooling is slow. You can decorate it with fresh berries.

Cinnabon Buns

Preparing rich yeast dough. Mix in a bowl 220 grams of cane sugar and 20 grams of ground cinnamon. Pour in 70 g of melted butter. Stir until smooth. Roll out the dough into a layer, grease with cinnamon filling, roll up. We cut it into buns. Let stand for a quarter of an hour, and bake for 25 minutes at 200 C. While the buns are cooking, make a cream. Knead 120 grams of Philadelphia cheese with 100 g of powdered sugar and 60 g of soft butter. Take out the buns and let them cool down a bit. Pour cream onto the curl of the product with a spoon.

Stuffed apples

Philadelphia cream cheese mix with powdered sugar, add vanillaextract and a pinch of cinnamon. We stir the cream. We take apples and with a sharp knife we select the core with seeds, trying not to violate the integrity of the shell. We stuff fruits with cheese filling. We put in a preheated oven. Bake until done (apples should be soft).

Philadelphia Sushi

Another dish that only needs this cream cheese to make. First, according to all the rules, we prepare rice for sushi. We need 240 grams of it. Fresh peeled cucumber (30 g) cut into strips. Lay a sheet of nori on the mat, and rice on it. Let's reverse the design. In the middle of the nori sheet, place a strip of cucumber and 60 grams of Philadelphia cheese. Roll up the roll, which is then cut into portions. Place a slice of salmon on top of each roll. Let's serve Philadelphia sushi with ginger and wasabi.